Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Weinshall Watch

Sources Say…

By Aaron Naparstek | | 5 Comments
DOT Commissioner Kate Ascher: "It’s not happening. It’s not possible. That information is incorrect." DOT Commissioner Joan McDonald: "It’s a very complicated agency, a huge bureaucracy with lots of moving parts and serious work to be done. If they took someone who has been here before, already had knowledge of the agency and who has […]

Why Wasn’t Traffic-Calming Built on Third Avenue?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 2 Comments
DOT has gotten back to me with some answers.   As Streetsblog reported Monday, New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. Streetsblog asked DOT why […]

Kate Ascher: New York City’s Next DOT Commissioner?

By Aaron Naparstek | | 3 Comments
Sources say that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will name the replacement for outgoing Department of Transportation commissioner Iris Weinshall later this week. Word has it the job may be going to Kate Ascher. Ascher currently works as executive vice president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in government from the […]

DOT Pledged Ped Safety Fixes by 2006 on Deadly Third Ave

By Aaron Naparstek | | 16 Comments
New York City’s Department of Transportation failed to follow through on a 2004 pledge to build potentially life-saving pedestrian safety improvements along the Third Avenue corridor where a 4-year-old boy was run over and killed last Tuesday. DOT’s announcement of $4 million in funding for the installation of "median extensions, neckdowns and other traffic-calming" measures […]

DOT Commissioner Update

By Aaron Naparstek | | 19 Comments
Sources say that Janette Sadik-Khan (left) is a top candidate to replace Iris Weinshall when she resigns on April 13. Sadik-Khan met with Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff this week to talk about the job. A senior vice president at Parsons Brinckerhoff and former Director of the Mayor’s Office of Transportation for New York City during […]

Help Wanted at DOT: Creative Thinkers Encouraged to Apply

By Aaron Donovan | | 18 Comments
Chairman of the City Council Transportation Committee, John C. Liu, praised outgoing DOT commissioner Iris Weinshall and called for an innovative thinker as her successor. You’ve already weighed in on what you’d like to see in the next DOT commissioner. Now members of the City Council and Transportation Alternatives have weighed in too, with a press conference […]
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